This was taken from the Houston Chronicle:
A woman's place
With the announcement that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, how can Sarah Palin possibly think she can continue her run for the Republican vice presidency? The GOP players have been quick to praise her family values, but I question the values of any woman who would leave a special needs infant and her pregnant teenage daughter to gallivant around the nation in a frantic, round-the-clock campaign for vice president.-BETSY DOLAN
Sugar Land
I find this interesting...
I believe that if Sarah Palin was a man running for VP in the same situation, there would not be as much scrutiny on the issue.
I think that Sarah Palin should be praised for showing America that just because she is running for VP, doesn't mean she has a perfect family! Things happen...at least the Palin family is backing their daughter.
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I agree completely with the opinion that if it was a man people wouldn't even bring this up.
There have been plenty of instances where a man in office of whatever the position was talked about or it was known about family problems with children or spouses or whatever and it was just understood that the spouse, which in those cases were women would take care of it.
Like the man is busy doing important political business and it's the "little woman's" job to take care of home business. I've also heard it said that she shouldn't run to protect her family but men with families run all the time and I don't hear that thrown into the argument until now?
Yes it was said that she should not run to protect her family...but like you said all of the men that have run for political positions have families that are flawed as well. But I think the reason those men are not brought up about not running to "protect their family" is because of the gender stereotype that the woman has to tend to those needs.
Sarah Palin also announced that "we as a family are pregnant" I applaud her for recognizing that.
The fact that Sarah Palin, a woman, is running for VP, is going to force us as a country to look at our gender stereotypes and possibly change them. But like we discussed in class we change our actions (having a woman as a VP nominee) but our beliefs/values take much longer to actually change.
After watching Sarah Palin speak the other night i have no doubt that she will make a great VP. I think the fact that she IS a woman scares a lot of people so they have to find reasons why she shouldn't be running since she is so well liked and powerful. As for her daughter being pregnant, really she's handling it with grace. The fact that she is supporting her daughter is only making her look stronger as a leader. I agree with both of you in saying that if it were a man running this wouldn't be as big of an issue, however this may help in changing gender stereotypes by showing america that women can deal with their family issues and still be great leaders.
i really dont see the problem...everyone is making a big deal about her, she is only human and i believe she is a perfect representation of a normal family....the media puts so much emphasis on being presidential that if you make one mistake then its like you can never be president...i dont feel a woman should have to have criteria about how she should live...times have changed and now kids are having kids...the older generation really are the only people shocked... is it wrong, thats your call...but we are taught to get married and then have kids...other cultures people get married as young as 14..we can say that is wrong yet they get married and have kids...i guess you cant please everybody
I agree with superkitty, if this was a male in this situation he would not be under the same scrutiny as Sarah Palin.
There is enough family support, that her daughter and grandchild are getting the care that they need.
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